Educational Score Performance – Country Rankings

 

 

These tables show student performance on subjects:
1.Reading,
2.Scientific
       3.Mathematical
literacy scales, mean score, measured in 2006, and reported in OECD’s Education at a Glance 2009.
Students were tested at age 15 and therefore approaching the end of compulsory schooling.

 

Source: UNESCO. 2004. EFA Global Monitoring Report 2005: Education for All, the Quality Imperative . Statistical Annex, Table 2. Paris: UNESCO

 

SOURCE: OECD in Figures 2009
  • Student Performance on the Reading, Scientific and Mathematical Literacy Scales, mean score, 2006
  • Countries are ranked highest to lowest score
  • Countries ranked by reading scores. In the other tables below, countries are ranked by mathematics and science scores

See also notes below the tables.

Rank

                                            
————————————————————————————————————-
COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST READING SCORES

Country


Read  Math  Sci

  1. 1 Korea                                        556 547 522
  2. 2 Finland                                      547 548 563
  3. 3 Canada                                     527 527 534
  4. 4 New Zealand                            521 522 530
  5. 5 Ireland                                      517 501 508
  6. 6 Australia                                   513 520 527
  7. 7 Poland1                                    508 495 498
  8. 8 Sweden                                    507 502 503
  9. 9 Netherlands                             507 531 525
  10. 10 Belgium                                 501 520 510
  11. 11 Switzerland                           499 530 512
  12. 12 Japan                                    498 523 531
  13. 13 United Kingdom                    495 495 515
  14. 14 Germany                               495 504 516
  15. 15 Denmark                               494 513 496
  16. 16 OECD average                     492 498 500
  17. 17 Austria                                  490 505 511
  18. 18 France                                  488 496 495
  19. 19 Iceland                                  484 506 491
  20. 20 Norway                                 484 490 487
  21. 21 Czech Republic1                  483 510 513
  22. 22 Hungary                               482 491 504
  23. 23 Luxembourg                         479 490 486
  24. 24 Portugal1                              472 466 474
  25. 25 Italy                                       469 462 475
  26. 26 Slovak Republic                    466 492 488
  27. 27 Spain                                    461 480 488
  28. 28 Greece                                 460 459 473
  29. 29 Turkey1                                447 424 424
  30. 30 Russian Federation              440 476 479
  31. 31 Mexico                                  410 406 410
  32. 32 Brazil1                                   393 370 390
  33. 33 United States                           .. 474 489
Rank
——– Country
———————– Maths
———– Science
————- Reading
COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST MATHEMATICS SCORES
————-
1 Finland                                   548 563 547
2 Korea                                     547 522 556
3 Netherlands                           531 525 507
4 Switzerland                            530 512 499
5 Canada                                  527 534 527
6 Japan                                     523 531 498
7 New Zealand                          522 530 521
8 Belgium                                  520 510 501
9 Australia                                 520 527 513
10 Denmark                               513 496 494
11 Czech Republic1                  510 513 483
12 Iceland                                  506 491 484
13 Austria                                  505 511 490
14 Germany                              504 516 495
15 Sweden                                502 503 507
16 Ireland                                  501 508 517
17 OECD average                    498 500 492
18 France                                 496 495 488
19 United Kingdom                   495 515 495
20 Poland1                               495 498 508
21 Slovak Republic                  492 488 466
22 Hungary                               491 504 482
23 Luxembourg                        490 486 479
24 Norway                                490 487 484
25 Spain                                   480 488 461
26 Russian Federation             476 479 440
27 United States                       474 489 ..
28 Portugal1                             466 474 472
29 Italy                                      462 475 469
30 Greece                                 459 473 460
31 Turkey1                                424 424 447
32 Mexico                                  406 410 410
33 Brazil1                                   370 390 393
Rank
——– Country
———————– Science
————- Reading
————- Maths
Islam’s Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science
by Nidhal Guessoum
Islam's Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science

My rating:

In secular Europe, the veracity of modern science is almost always taken for granted. Whether they think of the evolutionary proofs of Darwin or of spectacular investigation into the boundaries of physics conducted by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, most people assume that scientific enquiry goes to the heart of fundamental truths about the universe. Yet elsewhere, science is under siege. In the USA, Christian fundamentalists contest whether evolution should be taught in schools at all. And in Muslim countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia, a mere 15% of those recently surveyed believed Darwin’s theory to be “true” or “probably true.” This thoughtful and passionately argued book contends absolutely to the contrary: not only that evolutionary theory does not contradict core Muslim beliefs, but that many scholars, from Islam’s golden age to the present, adopted a worldview that accepted evolution as a given. Guessoum suggests that the Islamic world, just like the Christian, needs to take scientific questions — quantum questions — with the utmost seriousness if it is to recover its true heritage and integrity. In its application of a specifically Muslim perspective to important topics like cosmology, divine action and evolution, the book makes a vital contribution to debate in the disputed field of “science and religion.”
COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST SCIENCE SCORES
———–
1 Finland                                   563 547 548
2 Canada                                  534 527 527
3 Japan                                     531 498 523
4 New Zealand                         530 521 522
5 Australia                                527 513 520
6 Netherlands                           525 507 531
7 Korea                                     522 556 547
8 Germany                                516 495 504
9 United Kingdom                     515 495 495
10 Czech Republic1                 513 483 510
11 Switzerland                          512 499 530
12 Austria                                 511 490 505
13 Belgium                               510 501 520
14 Ireland                                 508 517 501
15 Hungary                              504 482 491
16 Sweden                               503 507 502
17 OECD average                    500 492 498
18 Poland1                               498 508 495
19 Denmark                             496 494 513
20 France                                495 488 496
21 Iceland                               491 484 506
22 United States                     489 .. 474
23 Slovak Republic                 488 466 492
24 Spain                                  488 461 480
25 Norway                               487 484 490
26 Luxembourg                       486 479 490
27 Russian Federation            479 440 476
28 Italy                                    475 469 462
29 Portugal1                           474 472 466
30 Greece                               473 460 459
31 Turkey1                              424 447 424
32 Mexico                                410 410 406
33 Brazil1                                 390 393 370
NOTES:
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OECD Education Rankings – 2011

April 10, 2008 by ourtimes

Countries which belong to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) produce two-thirds of the world’s goods and services. The organization publishes reports on economic and social factors in the member states. School performance league tables are presented in the OECD report, Education at a Glance 2011. It includes comparison tables of educational performance, class sizes, teachers’ salaries, tertiary education and more.
The report can be downloaded as a PDF document.

► See the top performers in reading, mathematics and science (on this page).

Education at a Glance reports in previous years:  2010 | 2009 | 2008| 2007 |

country where 25-34 year-olds are not better educated than 55-64 year-olds. Chart A1·2 is reproduced here in accordance with the terms specified at: http://www.oecd.org/rights/

Chart A1·2 footnote:
2. Russia: Year of reference 2002.

PISA 2009 survey results

The OECD conducts an international comparison of educational performance every three years. The results for the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment were published in December 2010. For more information see: http://www.pisa.oecd.org/

The chart below shows the top performing countries in reading, mathematics and science, in rank order. The figures are drawn from the Executive Summary of the PISA secondary education test results:

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/60/46619703.pdf

2009  Programme for International Student Assessment — test scores
# Reading – Overall Mathematics Science
1 China: Shanghai 556 China: Shanghai 600 China: Shanghai 575
2 Korea 539 Singapore 562 Finland 554
3 Finland 536 Hong Kong 555 Hong Kong 549
4 Hong Kong 533 Korea 546 Singapore 542
5 Singapore 526 Chinese taipei 543 Japan 539
6 Canada 524 Finland 541 Korea 538
7 New Zealand 521 Liechtenstein 536 New Zealand 532
8 Japan 520 Switzerland 534 Canada 529
9 Australia 515 Japan 529 Estonia 528
10 Netherlands 508 Canada 527 Australia 527
11 Belgium 506 Netherlands 526 Netherlands 522
12 Norway 503 China: Macao 525 Chinese taipei 520
13 Estonia 501 New Zealand 519 Liechtenstein 520
14 Switzerland 501 Belgium 515 Germany 520
15 Iceland 500 Australia 514 Switzerland 517
16 Poland 500 Germany 513 United Kingdom 514
17 United States 500 Estonia 512 Slovenia 512
18 Liechtenstein 499 Iceland 507 China: Macao 511
19 Germany 497 Denmark 503 Poland 508
20 Sweden 497 Slovenia 501 Ireland 508
21 France 496 Norway 498 Belgium 507
22 Ireland 496 France 497 Hungary 503
23 Chinese taipei 495 Slovak Republic 497 United States 502
  PISA average : 501
24 Denmark 495 Austria 496 Norway 500
  PISA average : 496  
25 Hungary 494 Poland 495 Czech Republic 500
26 United Kingdom 494 Sweden 494 Denmark 499
  PISA average : 493  
  Reading – Overall Mathematics Science
27 Portugal 489 Czech Republic 493 France 498
28 China: Macao 487 United Kingdom 492 Iceland 496
29 Italy 486 Hungary 490 Sweden 495
30 Latvia 484 Luxembourg 489 Austria 494
31 Greece 483 United States 487 Latvia 494
32 Slovenia 483 Ireland 487 Portugal 493
33 Spain 481 Portugal 487 Lithuania 491
34 Czech Republic 478 Italy 483 Slovak Republic 490
35 Slovak Republic 477 Spain 483 Italy 489
36 Croatia 476 Latvia 482 Spain 488
37 Israel 474 Lithuania 477 Croatia 486
38 Luxembourg 472 Russian Fed. 468 Luxembourg 484
39 Austria 470 Greece 466 Russian Fed. 478
40 Lithuania 468 Croatia 460 Greece 470
41 Turkey 464 Dubai (UAE) 453 Dubai (UAE) 466
42 Dubai (UAE) 459 Israel 447 Israel 455
43 Russian Fed. 459 Turkey 445 Turkey 454
44 Chile 449 Serbia 442 Chile 447
45 Serbia 442 Azerbaijan 431 Serbia 443
46 Bulgaria 429 Bulgaria 428 Bulgaria 439
47 Uruguay 426 Uruguay 427 Romania 428
48 Mexico 425 Romania 427 Uruguay 427
49 Romania 424 Chile 421 Thailand 425
50 Thailand 421 Mexico 419 Mexico 416
51 Trinidad&T. 416 Thailand 419 Jordan 415
52 Colombia 413 Trinidad&T. 414 Trinidad&T. 410
53 Brazil 412 Kazakhstan 405 Brazil 405
54 Montenegro 408 Montenegro 403 Colombia 402
55 Jordan 405 Argentina 388 Montenegro 401
56 Tunisia 404 Jordan 387 Argentina 401
57 Indonesia 402 Brazil 386 Tunisia 401
58 Argentina 398 Colombia 381 Kazakhstan 400
59 Kazakhstan 390 Albania 377 Albania 391
60 Albania 385 Tunisia 371 Indonesia 383
61 Qatar 372 Indonesia 371 Qatar 379
62 Panama 371 Qatar 368 Panama 376
63 Peru 370 Peru 365 Azerbaijan 373
64 Azerbaijan 362 Panama 360 Peru 369
65 Kyrgyzstan 314 Kyrgyzstan 331 Kyrgyzstan 330
PISA average : 493 PISA average : 496 PISA average : 501
  Reading – Overall Mathematics Science

OECD member countries:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom (UK), United States (USA).

OECD Partner Economies:

Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chinese taipei (Taiwan), Colombia, Croatia, Dubai (UAE), Hong Kong-China, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macao-China, Montenegro, Panama, Peru, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Shanghai-China, Singapore, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uruguay.

UN reports about OECD countries:

The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre publishes reports on the performance of member countries in meeting the needs of their children. You can download any report in the series from the UNICEF-IRC website: Innocenti Report Cards.

References and Acknowledgements

http://www.geographic.org/country_ranks/educational_score_performance_country_ranks_2009_oecd.html

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8614056-islam-s-quantum-question

www.pakdefence.com

http://1.bp.blogspot.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URCYsRiSUzU

OECD Education Rankings – 2013 Update

 

 

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